ACCEPTED decision status
[ color=green]Decision: Accepted
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 1460 (730 E, 730 M, no essay)
ACT (breakdown): 35 (36 W, 36 R, 35 M, 32 S, 9 essay)
SAT II (subject, score): never took any
Unweighted/Weighted GPA: UW: 4.0, W: 4.5
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn’t rank, but I have a chance at salutatorian
AP/IB (place score in parentheses): English Lang (5), Euro (5), APUSH (5), Chem (3)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP Latin, AP Micro, AP Bio, AP Lit, Orchestra, Israel in Modern World
Number of other ED applicants in your school: none as far as I know
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): none
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): AP Scholar, National Merit Commended, etc.
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): started school newspaper and worked as editor/leader, cellist/bassist for high school career (wasn’t very good, but I was 1st chair for a year); played golf a year (hahah I have no athletic ability)
Job/Work Experience: I have worked ~2000 hours in my two years at Kroger (in Clicklist); I work mostly 5am-1:30pm shifts so that I have time in the day for other activities–most of this money I used to pay my bills/buy food or other necessities my parents couldn’t afford; worked independently as a tutor for five years (Latin, AP Euro, etc.); I work as the Pro Tempore Clerk for my local council/village government
Volunteer/Community Service: I started up an online paper for my local government, advertising local business and people; I lead a service group that plays tennis with kids who have Down Syndrome
Summer Experience: I mostly worked at Kroger (43 hrs/wk) and worked at the village government, developing the online paper and conducting interviews, etc.
Teacher Recommendation #1: Latin teacher-- 10/10: I’m pretty sure it was a great rec since we are such good friends
Teacher Recommendation #2: AP Lang teacher-- 8/10: probably good, but not outstanding
Counselor Rec: 10/10
Additional Info/Rec: I was a Questbridge student. I didn’t match with Princeton, but I was accepted regular decision. Using Questbridge was great since it allowed me to submit two additional essays in addition to my Common App (4 essays total read by Princeton admissions) which gave a more well-rounded view of me as an applicant
Interview: 6/10: compared to my other four interviews, this wasn’t the best. I felt like my interviewer was on a time crunch, and it was also difficult to hear since the Starbucks was loud.
Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details): 10/10
CommonApp Essay: I wrote 4 essays: my main one was about being a low-income student at an upper-middle class school and the perspective it gave me; my second was about working on the village council and developing the paper; the third was about how I question the world in regards to my faith and how I think about learning and unfamiliar perspectives; the fourth was a funny one about me being a Slytherin
Applied for Financial Aid? Yes
U.S. State/Territory or Country: Midwest
School Type: small Christian private (I received scholarships to attend)
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female
Income Bracket Range: 35,000-45,000
Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athlete, development): not first gen, but low-income
Reflection
Strengths: essays, work with both of the papers I developed, character (?)
Weaknesses: teacher rec #2
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted at Princeton, Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Centre College, Williams, Amherst, Davidson, William and Mary; Waitlisted: Dickinson, UChicago, Kenyon, Vanderbilt, Swarthmore; Rejected: Yale
What would you have done differently?: honestly, nothing. I am happy with my acceptances (which don’t seem to align with where I got waitlisted), and I believe I did the best I could
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